High oil prices and environmental opportunities for solar energy

Just four years ago, the renewable energy sector is also little one cares. Since the rising international oil prices, clean environment, inexhaustible solar energy on a global scale has been sought after. Experts said that high oil prices to the world energy mix sounded the alarm, photovoltaic power generation is being more and more national attention, our country is the amount of solar radiation resources in the country, the solar photovoltaic industry has great potential for development, so to seize the opportunity to participate in international competition.

Polysilicon production monopoly is being broken photovoltaic industry (PV), refers to the conversion of sunlight into electricity through solar industry. Polycrystalline and monocrystalline silicon monocrystalline solar cell based on crystalline silicon material. According to the existing production technology, more than kiloton polysilicon production line that has the economies of scale, and the most advanced mass production technology of polysilicon still rests in the United States, Japan and Germany hands.

International chemical and semiconductor giants on the one hand in terms of capacity expansion rather cautious on the other hand reached a collective confidentiality and not to third-party technology transfer agreements. Suntech Power Co., Ltd. Vice President Zhang Guangchun that two years ago, when Chinese companies declared production of polysilicon project kiloton, some foreign companies, said China's polysilicon solar cell will not pose a threat to them.

But less than two years, China's polysilicon industry developed kiloton, 2008, solar photovoltaic substantial expansion capital. JZPTD Technology Development Co., 6,000 tons of electronic-grade polysilicon expansion project approved capital increase started, put into operation, the total annual output will reach 10,000 tons, becoming the first in China, Asia's leading polysilicon production base;

Jiangxi LDK Solar Hi-Tech Co., Ltd. 15,000 tons high-purity silicon material projects have started construction, investment 12 billion yuan; Suntech plans to double production again, the expansion to 1GW. End of this year is expected to put into operation kiloton polysilicon enterprises have at least six.